The Social Adaptation of Marginal Religious Movements in America

This article is about the movement-environment relationships of American marginal religious movements. It adds to the literature about the tensions surrounding contemporary movements by utilizing evidence from a historically broad range of cases, and by more broadly conceptualizing the conflict that...

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VerfasserInnen: Harper, Charles L. (VerfasserIn) ; Beau, Bryan F. Le (VerfasserIn)
Medienart: Elektronisch Aufsatz
Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: Oxford Univ. Press 1993
In: Sociology of religion
Jahr: 1993, Band: 54, Heft: 2, Seiten: 171-192
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Zusammenfassung:This article is about the movement-environment relationships of American marginal religious movements. It adds to the literature about the tensions surrounding contemporary movements by utilizing evidence from a historically broad range of cases, and by more broadly conceptualizing the conflict that surrounds them as existing within a range of social adaptation possibilities. Two temporal patterns of social adaptation for movements in America society are suggested. Within the context of a modified societal reaction framework we suggest characteristics of movements and the varieties of opposition and oppositional coalitions that are likely to result in different positive and negative locations on a social adaptation continuum. The relationship between social adaptation and the longer-term survival and success of marginal religious movements is discussed.
ISSN:1759-8818
Enthält:Enthalten in: Sociology of religion
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.2307/3712138